Home > Keywords > International > USA

USA

  • Bush Impeachment in Inquiry Has 8 House CoSponsors
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    6 comments

    Bush Impeachment Inquiry Has 8 House Co-Sponsors
    By Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News (January 01, 2006)
    A total of eight US House members have co-sponsored Resolution 635 to create a select committee to investigate the grounds for impeaching President Bush, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
    The co-sponsors are Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), (…)

  • BUSH AT YEAR-END
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    By William Fisher
    My editors, as well as many friends around the world, have been urging me to write something about how I think about George W. Bush as 2005 ends and a new year begins.
    I was reluctant because I have been reading dozens of year-enders on this subject, and wondering if I had anything to add.
    What I have to add is not exactly new. Many others have expressed similar views. To which I will now add my own perspective.
    As I thought about our president, I wondered: Do I (…)

  • A Viet Nam Veteran: His Name Was Earl
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Monica Benderman
    His name was Earl. He spent his days in a wheel chair, hand propelled, sitting along the sidewalks of the seawall in a Victorian city along the coast. He kept all of his possessions in a shopping cart, while his valuables hung from the handles of his chair. I met him one night while walking on the beach. I walked past a hollowed out part of the rocky seawall, and something moved. It was Earl, and a blanket. After going across the street and returning with cups of (…)

  • Mary MacElveen: With Hitler is was the Reichstag and with Bush it was 9/11
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    by Mary MacElveen
    In answering the terrorists back who attacked the United States on September 11th, 2001, George W. Bush was quoted as saying: "They (the terrorists) hate us for our freedoms."
    Well, those freedoms can be found in the United States Constitution.
    Contained within the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the very laws that separate us from those we have always abhorred. By enacting the Patriot Act, we told Osama bin Laden and others just like him, that they won. (…)

  • The American Imperial Plan and the Iraqi Oil Ministry
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    By Sarah Meyer
    The American Imperial Plan is proceeding nicely. Ahmad Chalabi is now controlling the Oil Ministry, whilst not a member of the newly elected government:
    "Relations with Washington after falling out with the US administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, officials said on Friday.
    His takeover coincided with long lines forming at petrol stations in Baghdad, as words spread that Iraq’s largest oil refinery had (…)

  • ImpeachPAC Forms Citizens Impeachment Commission
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    ImpeachPAC today announced the formation of a Citizens Impeachment Commission to make 2006 the "Year of Impeachment." "We are honored by the broad support for impeachment from this distinguished group of true American patriots," said Bob Fertik, President of ImpeachPAC. "Impeachment is not a ’fringe’ position, as the Bush Administration would like Americans to believe. With a recent Zogby poll showing Americans support impeachment hearings by a solid majority of 53%-42%, there is far more (…)

  • End the Death and Destruction: Impeach Bush and Cheney As Soon As Possible
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    WASHINGTON - January 3 - Citing a litany of alleged high crimes and misdemeanors, abuses of power, and violations of the U.S. Constitution, Green Party leaders urged Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney as soon as possible.
    "The evidence that President Bush has abused his office and betrayed the trust of the American people is now so overwhelming that failure to undertake impeachment would make Congress even more complicit (…)

  • White House to withdraw funding for rebuilding Iraq
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    By Andrew Gumbel
    The US government is not planning to continue funding reconstruction projects in Iraq, in what appears to be a major climbdown from the White House’s one-time pledge to build the best infrastructure in the region.
    According to officials cited in yesterday’s Washington Post, the Bush administration will not be adding construction funds to the $18.4bn (£10.7bn) it has allocated since the 2003 invasion.
    In future it will be up to other foreign donors and the Iraqi (…)

  • Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz...
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Steve Early
    Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, students and professors, public officials, religious leaders, and even a few "socially-minded" businessmen. The janitors had long been invisible, mistreated by management and, until recently, ignored by their own SEIU local union. (…)

  • WHAT LABOR CAN’T SAY
    3 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    by Aldon Morris and Dan Clawson
    What kind of labor writing gets suppressed in the U.S. today? Apparently it doesn’t take much.
    We wrote an article on "Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for Building a Worker Rights Movement" whose last paragraph said:
    Finally, a fundamental question faces workers today: do they have the courage to get up off their knees and confront powerful employers and corporations? A movement requires moral authority and enormous sacrifices by its participants (…)